Young Authors Telling Our Stories:Past, Present, and Future

Up to 55 disadvantaged rising first-,second-, and third-grade students at anelementary school attend a four-weeksummer adventure run by The Citadelto discover their personal stories andsome methods to communicate them.The nascent storytellers utilize libraryresources, numerous arts, andmultimedia tools to recount familyhistory, fashion affirming self-portraits, and imagine their potentialsuch as college majors or careerchoices. They also take weekly trips tonearby colleges. (Conway Saylor, TheCitadel former chapter president) ■

Reading Between the Lines

By Erin York

‘It’s hard to feel alone when you’re in the middle of a good book,” ob- served Heather Davis.Hence the Healing through ReadingProject, a book club for survivors of do-mestic abuse living temporarily in a32-bed safe house in central Kentucky.Reading delivers not only enlightenmentand empowerment but also catharsis andcommunity, explained Davis, who is pur-suing an M.S. in higher education atUniversity of Kentucky, at which she is achapter student vice president; who wasTexas Woman’s University chapter secre-tary when employed in the school’sundergraduatestudies of-fice; andwhoearned a B.A. in English from Universityof North Texas.

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Erin York (University ofMissouri-Kansas City)earned a B.A. in creativewriting last May fromUMKC and has publishednumerous short prose andpoetry. She works in theLearning Center at RoseState College in Midwest City, Okla. Go onlineto wix.com/eywritereditor/erinyork or emailher at eywritereditor@gmail.com.